[Gimp-web] introduction

[Roman Joost]

Hi Jimmac,

nice mockup. I really like the idea of putting a quick link on the
homepage to download the program, as well as a short explaination what
GIMP is.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:48:51AM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:52 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> 
> > I like it a lot. Here is some (hopefully helpful) criticism
> > nevertheless:
> > 
> >  - do we really want software awards on the front page (or at all?)
> 
> I don't know, do we? Maybe for people completely oblivious to what GIMP
> is, it may help them to realize GIMP rocks, sooner. On the other hand,
> it would mean maintaining a reasonable list of awards in the past
> years. 
> 
> Unless somebody feels like maintaining that page, I'm very happy to take
> the award link out. It does look cool visually though (after some
> polishing of the ghosts, was a quickie).
I like the idea of the awards, although it depends who will update them.
The GIMP community put so much effort in this project, so why not
showing others that the hard work was awarded.

 
> >  - I can't find an easy way to return to the front page from any of
> >    the sub-pages
> 
> Yes indeed. I wonder if making the titlebar clickable would do, or if we
> need an explicit link.
Hm.. why not both? Having a Link in the Navigation bar and an additional
clickable banner would fit the most cases to return to the frontpage,
IMHO.
>
> > A branch might be a good idea as that would allow us to prepare
> > everything for the 2.4 release and then put it in place when the release
> > is ready.
> 
> Alrighty. I have created a
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gimp-web/branches/v2.4/ branch and put all my
> WIP changes in. Everyone, please feel free to help with structure and
> release notes content. I will be focusing on the stylesheet and graphics
> for the meantime.
> 
> I was a bit skeptical about how the website is managed, but it's really
> nice and tidy. The only barrier to entry is needing to set up a local
> apache with includes working. In the end a full blown CMS would really
> be an overkill. It will be a lot more sane to come up with a nice svn+
> apache howto, to get people started quickly.
I first thought about a CMS as well as a good replacement, but after
some fighting with the DocBook utils I ended up with appreciting this
way of creating a website.  In my opinion, if you can't setup this
website environment you shouldn't touch a CMS and administrate it...

Although I think it would make sense to use the layout for other
'official' GIMP related websites. Jakub have you had time to think about
some color coded key for the wiki, the manual or other 'official' GIMP
related sites as an indicator? Currently developers.gimp.org has a green
banner, www.gimp.org is blue and the manual uses some darkish yellow...

Greetings,
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski at gimp.org
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